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This week the Reserve Bank made the decision to cut the official cash rate by 50 basis points to 2.5 percent, in an effort to improve consumer confidence and boost the country's economy. But is it too little too late? RNZ's business reporter and former market analyst Jeffrey Halley is with Jim to discuss the outlook for the economy.

New Zealand raised, Sydney-based lecturer and writer Susannah Fullerton has written Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them. In it, she explores the special bond between renowned writers and their feline companions. Susannah has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for almost 30 years and gives talks on famous writers and their novels, poems, and plays. She's with Jim to discuss the well-known authors who had a space on their lap for a cat.

Victoria University Psychology Professor Dr Marc Wilson joins Jim to discuss happiness; a recent study out of Germany challenges commonly held beliefs about happiness.

British comedian John Bishop joins Jim to talk about his soon-to-be released biopic Is This Thing On?, and his upcoming tour to NZ.

Award-winning NZ feature documentary maker Charlotte Purdy joins Jim to talk about the Lucy Letby case and what her research uncovered.

Netball's a national sport - and it's natural the media want to know if something's going wrong at the top. But have media made the game's current coaching drama worse- at the worst possible time? Also - what to do about online harm was aired in a Parliamentary inquiry this week. But was the purpose of this to prevent regulation that could make it safer?

Feature Story's Nick Harper joins Jim to discuss Trump, Gaza, US crime and the US government shutdown.

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning quiz. 

Who's in and who's out? RNZ's Alexa Cook joins Jim to discuss election results across the motu.

This morning's top stories and other headlines

A wrap of the day's big stories

All the top stories and other headlines from the day

In Tagata o te Moana this week: A Kiribati community leader back amnesty call for New Zealand climate visa. Fiji chiefs urged to take a hard line on abusers. Also.Cook Islands music and culture on display in Aotearoa.All that and more stories of the week from RNZ Pacific.

For decades Ngai Tahu archaeologist and historian, Professor Atholl Anderson, has explored the origins and historic migration of peoples around the Pacific, the first arrivals of Māori in Aotearoa and their early encounters with Europeans. His great, great, great grandmother married a sealer called George Newton, and their first home was on Whenua Hou, Codfish Island, and his father, John Anderson, was raised in the Scottish Highlands. Professor Anderson says his career 'chose me' and 'what you do in your life is determined by factors beyond your control'. Recently he released a revised edition of his 1998 book The Welcome of Strangers, A History of Southern Māori.  

The top stories and other headlines at midday

Astrid Jorgensen's memoir teaches us how to embrace mediocrity and to find joy in the act of singing - even if you're not the best singer in the world!

Does smoking cannabis cause lung cancer? Does sitting for long periods of time cause blood clots? Professor Richard Beasley answers these questions in his national lecture tour.

Photographer Mark Smith and botanical artist Felicity Jones have spent the past seven years uncovering stories of botanical globalisation. 

Stan Walker, award-winning entertainer and style icon is taking part in a charity drive for high quality clothing to benefit the Red Cross. 

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport